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| How to quickly oust a University president? | |
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| Banandangees | Nov 11 2015, 04:25 AM Post #21 |
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I think now there is a good chance that such a tactic will become more prevelant. Football teams and student activists see now that they can control the schools. UM could have nipped such tactics in the bud by using the rules of the school (and I assume quite similar rules as in other universities). They could have turned to the football team and said "it's your choice," but if you don't go to practice, don't go to class, the next game will be cancelled and forfeited..... and each game after that if you don't meet your signed commitment; and/or, if you boycott the game and don't abide by your commitment, your athletic scholarship will be cancelled. Any student who didn't abide by the rules of the school (as with the laws of the country/state/locality), you will be suspended. Such policy would send a message to football teams of other schools that the same may happen. Instead they sent a bad message, a message that football players and student activists can run the school. There are avenues for such grievances (or should be), but caving to the pressures of student, activists or football players outside the protocol of such avenues for grievances shouldn't be tolerated. What they have done is weakened any university position for it's rules and regulations. Now they have opened a can of worms. |
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| Stoned | Nov 11 2015, 04:30 AM Post #22 |
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It probably will spread and we will see who "caves" and who does not. We will see what administration has the balls to cancel the entire team's scholarships. We are talking millions of bucks here. Don't hold your breath. |
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| Mountainrivers | Nov 11 2015, 04:33 AM Post #23 |
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One of the talking heads on a sports network said the reason the University caved was because every game that was cancelled would have cost the university a million dollars in lost ticket sales, concessions and tv royalties. It would also have meant that UM would be unable to recruit top rate athletes in the future. Football is a big money maker and there are a lot of fans, who spend big bucks to attend the games and alumni like to brag about their teams. Whether we like it or not, sometimes, radical action is necessary to get the attention of the people who can change things. |
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| Thumper | Nov 11 2015, 04:35 AM Post #24 |
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Thank God it was over racism and not diddling with young boys like Penn State. |
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| Jim Miller | Nov 11 2015, 04:39 AM Post #25 |
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Care to share with us just how Penn State was guilty of any of that? |
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| Neutral | Nov 11 2015, 04:56 AM Post #26 |
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It was a driveby to get you Jim, ignore him. I think this incident shows just how far race relations have been set back by this administration of Obi. |
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| Jim Miller | Nov 11 2015, 06:31 AM Post #27 |
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I know, I just like for him to show how little he knows. I realize he is here to start a fight and then run. That is his way. |
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| Berton | Nov 11 2015, 06:42 AM Post #28 |
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They are over there whining about why their board is not doing well. They can't seem to figure it out. LOL |
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| Jim Miller | Nov 11 2015, 06:45 AM Post #29 |
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With their current membership I am not surprised. |
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